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Super not sacred: Rice Warner

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
... the past. Rice has warned the superannuation industry to prepare to become part of the solution to the government's debt problem, musing that the government may choose to overhaul the system's tax structure in a bid to pay off the debt over the next ...

Super advocate takes FSC to task over TPD tests

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... to ban these junk terms once and for all," O'Halloran said. "It is good to see the FSC acknowledge there is a major problem with restrictive terms in people's life insurance in superannuation. But, what the industry has proposed is a band aid ...

Advisers involved in ERS scams: ASIC

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2020
... superannuation senior executive leader Jane Eccleston has written an article pointing to financial advisers as part of the problem in scams targeting people's super amid COVID-19. Eccleston said: "ASIC is concerned that some advisers may use the current ...

Chief economist update: Easing restrictions narrow oil demand-supply equation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2020
... respectively. In April, floating storage of crude oil increased by 9.9 mb to 123.8 mb." There's also the not so small problem of a second wave of infection that could prompt governments to re-enforce lockdowns and social restrictions and that eternal ...

Behavioural tools to limit losses, fear

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... and thinking," she said. "So in these times we need our minds to be flexible and open to new information so that we can problem solve and think clearly." Time pressure, emotional exhaustion and other stresses all amplify cognitive rigidity, which isn't ...

Chief economist update: Powell blamed for fall on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... in that it is attributable to the virus and the steps taken to limit its fallout. This time, high inflation was not a problem. There was no economy-threatening bubble to pop and no unsustainable boom to bust. "While the economic response has been both ...

Processes are the problem, not people: Count Financial

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
The majority of the problems faced by practices in delivering advice efficiently can be attributed to process issues not people, according to Count Financial. Countplus acquired the Count Financial from the Commonwealth Bank late last year for just ...

Advice, but not as you know it

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
While it is probably too soon to know the full impact the COVID-19 crisis will have on the future of advice, it is fair to say it may not look the same when all's said and done. Speaking to Financial Standard chief executive of JANA, Jim Lamborn, said ...

How early release impacts the ASX

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... funds would be feeling the heat. "When there is net inflows and you have a little bit of redemption, that's not a problem because you can fund the redemptions from the inflows," he said. "But if you have enough outflows like we have now with the ...

AFP investigates ERS scams

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
The Australian Federal Police are investigating a small number of scams in relation to the government's Early Release of Super scheme. The Australian Taxation Office said measures designed to protect the integrity of the early access to super scheme ...